"hair is a vanity"

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okay, i remember hearing this age 11, spoken by the stage manager of "the best christmas pageant ever" during a rehearsal one day. he was probably in high school, but he seemed impossibly older and cooler, and he wore a green army jacket, which i kept in my mind for years until i could get one. anyway, the phrase obviouly struck me, maybe because of the peculiar way it was phrased? and now i wonder where it comes from, and when. any ideas?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 23 January 2006 05:44 (twenty years ago)

http://www.withnail-and-i.com/pictures/danny04.jpg

"Hair are your aerials, man!"

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 23 January 2006 05:50 (twenty years ago)

Ah bugger.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 23 January 2006 05:51 (twenty years ago)

(fixed it on the sly)

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Monday, 23 January 2006 06:04 (twenty years ago)

"Because I invented it in Camberwell, and it resembles a Carrot."

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 23 January 2006 06:10 (twenty years ago)

Let the sidetrack commence.

"Cool your boots, man..."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 January 2006 06:13 (twenty years ago)

Even Gawd wants his men to have long hair.

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 23 January 2006 08:03 (twenty years ago)

Wow, that's excellent. I'm going to send that to my Boy Toy to show his colleagues - even the Bible says it's OK for him to have long hair. Mmmmmm.

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Monday, 23 January 2006 10:10 (twenty years ago)

I distinctly remember this passage in one of the little house on the prarie books where Laura describes brushing out her hair and taking a lot of pleasure in it, and then realizing in horror that she was being vain. It bummed me out because I was enjoying her enjoying brushing her hair.

― emilys. (emilys.), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 04:47 (twenty years ago)

"And in a funny way, the shaving of my head has been a liberation from a lot of stupid vanities really. It has simplified everything for me, it has opened a lot of doors maybe."

http://www.things-and-other-stuff.com/images/a-prices%20realized/Movies/red%20letter/0406_yul_brynner.jpg

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 06:02 (twenty years ago)

Teenager: "Dad, can I borrow the car tonight? I have a date."

Dad: "You can borrow the car as soon as you cut that long hair."

Teenager: "Dad, you know, Jesus had long hair."

Dad: "Yes, son, and he walked everywhere he went."

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 06:13 (twenty years ago)

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― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 06:27 (twenty years ago)

What a clown. That guy with the red hair is a bit of an idiot too.

― ratty, Wednesday, 25 January 2006 07:24 (twenty years ago)

That was the Neddest joke ever joked.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 08:20 (twenty years ago)

From a Guardian interview with Nick Hornby:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1464888,00.html

Hornby and Colin Firth in the film of Fever Pitch look like identical twins, except, "He made the mistake of having hair, which I always think is vulgar and rather unfashionable and cheap."

― Mike W (caek), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 11:55 (twenty years ago)

fuckin yul brynner kicks so much ass.

in my teenage years i believed that hair in a vanity, and cut my hair really short. i still cut it short, partly because i think i still believe it, but in a much much less judgemental way (thank the lord).

i've never had the guts to shave it off completely though, with a razor, but i think the feeling would be among the best in the world.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 14:48 (twenty years ago)

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